What is the Democrats case for continuing immigration when millions of Americans are out of work?

Michael Walsh:

President Donald Trump’s announcement April 20, via his messenger of choice, Twitter, that he was temporarily closing the United States to almost all forms of immigration is a fitting capstone to his 2016 candidacy and the Armageddon of the battle between right and left in the United States at this point in our history.

The only issue that could possibly rival the Democrats’ desperate belief in open borders is their secular sacrament of abortion, but even that fervently held tenet has been weakening of late. Which leaves them with untrammeled “immigration,” whether legal or illegal, instant access to all welfare benefits, and a lifelong commitment to the Democratic Party to vote early, late, and often.

Trump’s opponents in the media immediately scoffed at his executive order: “Trump’s new immigration ban is a scam. Don’t pretend otherwise,” ran an opinion headline in the never-ever-Trump Washington Post.

Other “Resistance” outlets, such as Politico, helpfully pointed out that the “ban” was unlikely to include seasonal workers—which has been the case at least since FDR’s wartime “bracero” program in 1942. That was a wartime labor-shortage program occasioned by the drafting of millions of American men into the armed forces, which admitted temporary Mexican seasonal workers on the condition they were guaranteed acceptable living conditions and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour.

What did Santayana say—“Those who forget history are condemned to make fools of themselves in the present”? Something like that.

The prospective order, however, is far more significant than a simple tweaking of immigration and travel restrictions already in place, which it basically is. A red-meat promise to shut down illegal immigration from Mexico and other countries across our southern border lay at the heart of Trump’s campaign.
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More importantly, this is the fight Trump wants to have—and if not now, when? Frustrated throughout his first term by the Democrats’ lawfare against his border wall, Trump has opportunistically seized upon the CCP virus crisis in order to further his policy prescriptions for what ails the America of its Founders.

His embrace of federalism has infuriated the left, which nonetheless can’t quite come out and advocate direct rule from Washington in defiance of the Constitution. His daily jousting with the media has turned their cries of “more press conferences” into wounded bleats of “fewer press conferences” as he bests them time and again.

And his placing of medical men and women front and center at the daily press briefings has exposed the generic ignorance of the cartel-like White House Correspondents Association, which can only frame every issue as political.

When all you have is a hammer … eventually even your thumb looks like a nail.
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The president’s authority to control immigration is clear under Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part II, Section 1182, paragraph F of the United States Code, which clearly states: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
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President Trump has this ability to drive Democrats to distraction by exposing them.  He is like the bot in the fable about the king having no clothes who is the only one willing to challenge the Democrats by exposing the obvious.  This is just the latest example of him doing something that is right in defiance of the left.